Tag: urban development

• September 30, 2015

  “The European City in Transformation: Urban politics and urban planning in a postsocialist city”

  Abstract This book analyses postsocialist urban policy. The focus lies on the question of how certain it is that postsocialist Eastern European Cities are approaching the Model of the classic “European City“. The city of Warsaw was chosen as case study. Based on the neo-weberian approach developed by Le Galès, the author defines the characteristics…

• June 23, 2015

  Polish-German Border Towns: Models of Transnationalism?

  Funded by the British Academy this project investigates the transformations of public space in interface areas of the German-Polish ‘twin towns’ of Frankfurt-Slubice, Guben-Gubin and Görlitz-Zgorzelec along the Oder-Neisse border. Despite modest populations, the border towns have major symbolic value for two nations attempting to write a new chapter in a modern history marked by…

• February 19, 2015

  Greenfield vs Brownfield Sites

• October 15, 2014

  Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at UFZ

  The Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (Germany) is likely one of the most appealing and advanced research centres I’ve seen in relation to urban and environmental studies. See bellow the short description provided in their website: The Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre…

• August 29, 2014

  My new blog background #manila #philippines

  What you can see here is a photo taken in Manila (Philippines). Concretly, the buildings in the background are the so called Makati city, if I remember correctly. Why I’ve chosen this photo for my blog background? Well, for three reasons. First, it reflects in a single view my research interests, i.e. rapid growth, urban development, inequality,…